Births
1933: Clyde McPhatter (Lead Singer in The Drifters)
1951: Bill Gibson (Drums for Huey Lewis and the News)
1953: Andrew Ranken (Drums for The Pogues)
1956: Aldo Nova (Singer & Guitarist)
1979: Nikolai Fraiture (Bass for The Strokes)
Events
1960: Sammy Davis Jr. marries Swedish actress May Britt, one of the first public celebrity interracial marriages.
1967: The Rolling Stones' Brian Jones buys Cotchford Farm, Sussex, England, the former home of Winnie the Pooh writer A.A. Milne. Statues of Pooh characters dot the ground.
1968: The Beatles' Yellow Submarine film premieres in New York.
1969: John Lennon purchases the island Dorinch off the Ireland coast and invites any hippie who wishes to live there.
1973: Jerry Lee Lewis' son Jerry Lee Jr. is killed in a highway accident near Hernando, MS. The elder Lewis had already lost his only other son, Steven Allen, in a 1962 drowning.
1974: An imposter posing as Deep Purple guitar player Ritchie Blackmore crashes a borrowed Porsche in Iowa City, IA, having already conned food and shelter from several Deep Purple fans.
1975: Hank Williams Jr. undergoes four hours of plastic and oral surgery at Nashville's Baptist Hospital to repair damages from a 500-foot fall in an August mountain accident.
1982: Men At Work started a 15-week run at No.1 on the US album chart with their debut album 'Business As Usual', which went on to sell over five million copies in the US.
1985: New York's Whitney Museum presents an exhibition celebrating Bob Dylan's 25 years in the music industry.
1987: Sonny and Cher reunite for a performance on TV show Late Night with David Letterman.
1990: Patricia Boughton filed a lawsuit against Rod Stewart claiming that a football he kicked into the crowd during a concert at Pine Knob Music Theatre had ruptured a tendon in her middle finger. And as a result the injury had made sex between her and her husband difficult.
1992: 90,000 people attend Elton John's Mexico City concert, his first in the country.
2002: The three surviving member of Led Zeppelin announced they were re-forming after 22 years for a US stadium tour.
2004: Rap artist Ol' Dirty Bastard, (real name Russell Jones), collapsed and died at a Manhattan recording studio in New York aged 35. A spokesman for his record company, said the rapper, had complained of chest pains, was dead by the time paramedics reached him. ODB was a founding member of the Wu-Tang Clan in the early 1990s.
2005: Astronauts on at the US space station in orbit around the Earth are woken up today by Paul McCartney, singing "Good Day Sunshine" live from his concert in Anaheim, CA.
